Ethics rules reinstatement resolution [US House]

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Ethics rules reinstatement resolution [US House]

April 28, 2005 09:46:00 pm

HR 240 [reversing GOP-supported changes that Democrats alleged had been made to shield House Majority Leader Tom DeLay from ethics probes and returning ethics rules to the form they have been in since 1997]. Read the full text of the House resolution [PDF] as adopted by HR 241 [PDF]. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here.

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